Have You ever did something that you know you'll regret for the rest of your life?

Answer 1

Life is too short to have regrets. When you are younger you did things you probably shouldn't haven't done. But was good, wasn't it? Everybody have made mistakes. Now you are mature enough to know what you should or shouldnt do in life. Is it good enough to take the risk? If it is, go for it. Is it for love? There's no mistakes or regrets about love. Enjoy it as much as you can. That's what life is about. I love mistakes. Loose is more than hesitate.
"Twenty tears from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do"

Answer 2

Unsurprisingly, this involves me as a young man and a member of the opposite sex. It happened 20 years ago.

I used to be in love with a woman who was in a long term relationship with another man. He eventually cheated on her and they split up acrimoniously. This made her homeless and it was just before the finals for her degree. Over the time that i had known her, we got on really well and had grown quite close. However, i had very low self-esteem. I decided that there might be a slim chance that she and i could get together while she was on the rebound, but i didn't want to exploit her feelings, and i also believed i was unworthy of her. Therefore, as a deliberate policy, i behaved very distantly towards her and eventually started a relationship with someone else in order to convince her that i was over her so i could preserve our relationship as a friendship, which i believed was more useful to her than a brief fling would have been. She only became aware of my feelings when her best friend, who hated me, told her in the most unsympathetic possible terms, so basically my plan succeeded and she went off and eventually married someone else.

I am, emotionally speaking, over her and have been happily married for a long time. The person i went out with to convince her i was over her is OK with what i did as well and is herself in a happy long-term relationship. However, doing all this has led my life in the wrong direction and there is nothing i can do to remedy that. This has affected my children, my wife and my career adversely, and it doesn't matter that i'm over her and have been for many years, because these events are irrevocable.

Meanwhile, she is no longer the person she used to be and her potential and so forth to do what she could have done with her life is untapped, and basically her life has also gone in the wrong direction. I wasn't expecting a long-term relationship with her because she was too good for me, but i believe a brief relationship would have turned both our lives around in a permanent way that would have helped everyone involved in the situation and also a lot of other people.

Seize the moment. If it's bad, the suffering will contribute to your wisdom, and you won't have regrets.

Answer 3

Life is all about choices. We make them everyday, some small like what to order at Applebee's, others large like breaking up with the girl that was my first crush for another who I barely knew.
The key to avoiding regret is to own your choices. If you made a bad one and can fix it, fantastic. If you can't, then learn from it. Learn from it and continue to move forward, cause that's the direction life moves. With regret, you are living in the past. When you live in the past, you are making that your future. Just more regret, more 'what ifs', and likely repeats of those choices. Then one day you die and what do you have to show for it? Years of "whoa is me". You can't move forward and live an amazing life by allowing yourself to be consumed with a choice you think was a bad one.
I won't lie. I sometimes wish I could look into the "what if" machine and see how my life would have turned out had I made different choices. But in the end, that doesn't matter because I am living this life in this reality. Until someone invents a quantum leap time accelerator (yes, I am a geek) and gives us the choice to change our past choices, you have to suck it up and don't look back.
As I like to say (not really, I just invented it): Learn from the past, live in the present, look to the future.

Answer 4

Yes, several. A couple real doozies too.
Everyone lives with choices that seem to diminish them. Half of our opportunities in life are wiped away with every choice we make, and the older we get the more possibility is gone. It's important to remember, though, that accomplishment is better than potential. Along with mistakes there is also the leap at the chance for victory. Losing, then, is still honorable. As the saying goes, "It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
So, yes, there are things i wish had never happened in my life. But there are other things which some might consider mistakes but that I treasure, since the sum total of all the things that have happened to me made me who I am and put me where I am today, which isn't a bad place.

Answer 5

Hmm, I think everyone has regrets in life. BUT I also think it is not something you regret for the rest of your life if you open yourself to learning from it. Doing things you regret and learning from it is just one of the ways we make our way through life.

Answer 6

Yes, I am sure that I have, and that is one of pinpoint reasons to why decisions are so difficult for me to make nowadays. This is because I don't want to make another one that I might regret for the rest of my life. This has caused me to be overly cautious and careful when making decisions, and sometimes I am extremely undecisive and always think I am making the wrong one.

Answer 7

Regret is a terrible friend, loyal and present as it is, but horrible and only get worsen as time takes its toll on you, we are but human, we are all bound to make rash or unbalanced choices which will cast shadows on your lives throughout our existence permits us on this world, for some of us- who believes in the after life- these bad choices will continue to torment the being.

To answer you with one word, Yes, to explain the nature and conditions one should always keep his never parting friend so close so only he/she world remember and move on.

Answer 8

YES. I chose money over love and will regret it everyday for the rest of my life.

Answer 9

Hahaha Oh I'm sure we all have including me. I don't remember who told me one day but it's been etched in my mind since.



Never regret something that once made you smile because at that moment in your life you were happy!! :o)

Answer 10

Ya!!! being very naive at 25. It's cost me every thing so to speak. But I kinda got over it to be honest. And I guess that is virtue by itself--- To get over one's mistake and turning it for the good of the others, while I think I can't do anything `bout it myself, but I decided to make something good out of it....coz life is short so make it sweet.Don't like licking my own wound for too long!!!!